PistolPete 06.15.12

yeah an enhanced genre system sounds sick, a lot of reviews still fall under 'other' even though they are vastly different from each other. possibly a search function to find users, i know as of now to find the ppl i enjoy discussing stuff with and checking out their tastes I have to remember either A) the last thread i spoke to them or B) if they posted on my profile - iunno just hard to find ppl

Scoot 06.15.12

ignore function please?

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

sounds awesome. I just want to be able to edit my reviews again lol. but yeah what i think the site needs is a place for user reviews. and that could be sorted by genre, rating, which reviews have garnered the most attention, etc.

Spec 06.15.12

Ooh I'm excited.

Spec 06.15.12

But Chuck the fact that staff and user reviews coexist is what makes the site stand out.

ThroneOfAgony 06.15.12

ignore function[2] agreed. seriously, i'd give anything to have that feature

EasternLight 06.15.12

Some kind of function that would enable us to bookmark an album or artist would be fantastic. I hate forgetting about something I was really wanting to check out.

Spec 06.15.12

Your Internet browser has a bookmark function use that.

auberginedreams 06.15.12

mandatory IQ assessment for new user registration.

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

But Chuck the fact that staff and user reviews coexist is what makes the site stand out. ahh yes true spec. well then just a page for both staff and user reviews that is all sorted out like I mentioned

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

fucking lmao flutter

ThroneOfAgony 06.15.12

Oh and here's another suggestion. I guess you could consider making the reviewing process (selecting the artist, genre, and album) a bit more easy to use. I find it really clunky getting through.

Spec 06.15.12

Maybe have some mp3's on the artists page. Although that might cause some sort of legal issues.

PistolPete 06.15.12

"Google the username w/ Sputnikmusic" lol true that's foolproof but is that really what I have to resort to?

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

that'd be sick lakes

Ignimbrite 06.15.12

Definitely revise the genre system/add doom as a genre. Other genres should be added as well, but mostly doom. The "enhanced genre system" in general sounds like a good idea. Also, I would absolutely love a list system revision, especially in relation to locating lists (e.g. a list search function).

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

yeah definitely some genres must be added. Doom, deathcore, post-metal. and maybe make the 'metal' genre not have to be the first genre on a bands profile

PistolPete 06.15.12

mmm a list search function sounds great but it would have to be able to search for a list based on either the name of the list, the user who posted it, or the specific subgenres that were focused on in the list.

AngelofDeath 06.15.12

Any way now to fix the omission of certain characters in reviews and lists?

qwe3 06.15.12

plz get rid of the rs in soundoffs/lists thanks jeremy luvya

PistolPete 06.15.12

I'd like every album art to show up in lists instead of some getting blanked out cuz they have an apostrophe in it or sum shiiitttt

auberginedreams 06.15.12

the indie tags need to be refined. there's "alt/indie", "indie pop", and just "indie." plus there's a tag for "alternative rock" which kind of makes the "alt/indie" tag sort of obsolete. there should either just be an "alt/indie" tag, or there should be several more specific tags. but right now it's kind of confusing and it kind of screws up my piechart when the tags are so inconsistent and seemingly randomly applied in some cases.

Hyperion1001 06.15.12

make me mod

Oceanus 06.15.12

Thanks for sticking with the site and not completely abandoning it (yet), mx.

Kordez 06.15.12

I think any genre update would be fantastic, as someone else has already mentioned there are alot of releases falling under other that could be categorised better. I'd like to see an "upcoming releases" section added to each genre. Trying to find upcoming releases in Music News can be difficult. Something similar to what metacritic currently has which can be found here: http://www.metacritic.com/browse/albums/release-date/coming-soon/date?view=detailed

PistolPete 06.15.12

lol an ignore function? As if this site isn't cleeky enough already? That would put it on par with like a frat house

PistolPete 06.15.12

we'd start making new users do crazy initiation shit just so they wouldn't get mass ignored after their first review

Azazzel 06.15.12

better way to categorize bands with the same name. and bands with non alphanumeric characters

auberginedreams 06.15.12

maybe change the "electronica" tag to just "electronic" as the former is retarded sounding. in addition, this would help deviant sleep much better at night.

Azazzel 06.15.12

maybe some filters for the charts or something. like often some of the top 5 albums of the year for a subgenre have less than 10 votes.

Maniac! 06.15.12

holy mother of god

Hyperion1001 06.15.12

ok scratch the mod thing just ban aubergine forever

Parallels 06.15.12

Ignore feature? This isn't a dating site, man the fuck up Instead of something new, how about we get the review editing fixed already? I'm don't mean to bitch about it, but honestly it's been months and I haven't felt any motivation to do anything else here while it's broken.

Crysis 06.15.12

doom metal 4 genre tag 2012

PistolPete 06.15.12

But it's making us all brush up on our english grammar and writing, can't be all that bad =]

Spec 06.15.12

Could ban RosaParks and NeutralThunder from rating anything.

auberginedreams 06.15.12

yeah rosa just gives everything a 1 even if it's not out yet.

guitarnater 06.15.12

just ban aubergine forever [2]

SeaAnemone 06.15.12

bring back seaanemone

kris. 06.15.12

mods solely dedicated to patrolling review threads, lists, and such. jom and the boys do a fine job, but as jom explained it to me, there are too few of them to actually patrol and make sure everything gets cleaned up and people telling them about things via the meds thread is really the only way they're capable of finding shit out

ThroneOfAgony 06.15.12

lolwut

demigod! 06.15.12

waiy

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

^ this

demigod! 06.15.12

why do people keep claiming the site's broken, it's been fine for me. but then again i haven't been here for a while until recently..

Deviant. 06.15.12

Wow you're a genius Andcas. Maybe MX hadn't thought of that

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

oh and make the site more compatible for iPad's and iPhone's. it does some weird stuff on those

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

can you code deviant not to be a smartass too?

Deviant. 06.15.12

There isn't enough code in the world for that

demigod! 06.15.12

i always had a feeling deviant was a program created by sputnik to write reviews

Deviant. 06.15.12

Can we get Andcas drunk so he'll stop whining?

AsoTamaki 06.15.12

Enhanced genre system, awesome. I hope that includes having "R&B" as a genre. That would be very cool. There was something else I was wishing this site had the other day. I'll post again if I remember.

PuddlesPuddles 06.15.12

Enhanced genressssssssssss!!!!!!!!! http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m05t2z9a1k1roy4svo1_400.gif

auberginedreams 06.15.12

according to mx the review editing problem has already been fixed. he posted a thread about it on the forums.

PistolPete 06.15.12

spot on puddles spot on

auberginedreams 06.15.12

"ip bans" yes please god yes.

auberginedreams 06.15.12

also, a rule that you each ip can only have like 2 accounts. the alts are the biggest problem on this site, next to the review thing which has already been fixed.

PuddlesPuddles 06.15.12

I was wondering the other day, for iTunes, they should have tags for genre names. Instead of a vague solid "Rock". It should have blog-like tags ie: Shoegaze, Indie Rock, Canadian, Dreath Metal

auberginedreams 06.15.12

*a rule that each ip

auberginedreams 06.15.12

the only problem with more specific genres is that we don't want this to turn into a clusterfuck of made up genres like last.fm.

auberginedreams 06.15.12

foxxxy i would never want to lose you! i know you were joking, but i think it would be a good feature to use in extreme cases.

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

how about we don't censor swear words in shoutboxes or any other places where that happens. seriously what are we five? i know there are more pressing issues but it kinda just irks me. everything else sounds cool though, i can't wait also yeah an ignore function is retarded

AsoTamaki 06.15.12

Is Dreath Metal a real thing or was that a typo?

jlech 06.15.12

As a number nerd I would love the ability to use tenths that do not end in 0 or 5 in my ratings.

Deviant. 06.15.12

"It should have blog-like tags" No blog tags please

auberginedreams 06.15.12

yeah i agree with dev. it could get out of control.

Satellite 06.15.12

super minor issue #4251: make it so editing lists doesn't make album art disappear for albums/bands containing apostrophes.

auberginedreams 06.15.12

"As a number nerd I would love the ability to use tenths that do not end in 0 or 5 in my ratings." personally i hate this. i mean, how do you really differentiate between a 7.7 and a 7.8?

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

[quote]also, a rule that you each ip can only have like 2 accounts. the alts are the biggest problem on this site, next to the review thing which has already been fixed.[/quote] fuck you

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

also yeah a blog feature would be nice. basically, bring Journals/Muses back

PuddlesPuddles 06.15.12

No I'm not saying a "make your own" tag. Just a bit more color between rock/other. Or not, whatevs, you guys

jlech 06.15.12

"personally i hate this. i mean, how do you really differentiate between a 7.7 and a 7.8" not a big difference between 1 tenth, but something that is a borderline 3.5 and a 3.9 is a big difference in my ratings. It would be cool if you could still select the ratings (good, great, excellent) and then modify in between the ranking if desired.

auberginedreams 06.15.12

maybe a system that incorporated .00, .25, .50, and .75 could work, but i still think that tenths get too specific and in the case of reviews it makes them too much about a number score than an actual writing form.

Trollinator 06.15.12

The ability to POS/NEG Staff reviews (I doubt it will happen)

Parallels 06.15.12

Make pos's and neg's only good 1 per IP to stop trolling

SgtPepper 06.15.12

Or maybe just get rid of the pos and neg system all together? -Or maybe that's a bad idea... I dont know.

Satellite 06.15.12

how about a feature that prevents auberginedreams from posting bad ideas

Voivod 06.15.12

It's really great that the site will receive an upgrade. From what I reckon, here's a list of things that must be fixed. 1. Edit My Reviews/Albums function. 2. The error message that pops after an album edit. 3. In the current link for "SITE FORUM" (http://www.musicianforums.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=95) the domain "musicianforums" should be replaced by "sputnikmusic" 4. "Doom" should be included as a genre tag. At this point, I don't have any further suggestions.

Deviant. 06.15.12

You can edit your reviews now

Voivod 06.15.12

@ Deviant. Really? Awesome.

Parallels 06.15.12

@ Deviant. Really? Awesome. [2]

Deviant. 06.15.12

@Vovoid, Parallels and anyone else who hasn't seen this yet: http://www.sputnikmusic.com/forums/showthread.php?t=611405

auberginedreams 06.15.12

i understand the purpose of a pos/neg system, but i understand what andcas is saying, it's really abused.

AsoTamaki 06.15.12

The approval system is very useful (in theory). If there's any possible change to improve it, make it so that you can't vote unless you've posted a comment on the review thread.

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

lol the 2012 charts for Metal, Punk, Hip-Hop and Pop are broken again that didn't take long

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

nevermind they're good now

tkxxx7 06.15.12

Funny, I'd imagine a drunk andcas would just whine more

bungy 06.15.12

The word "staff" next to Sonic's username isn't in red like the other staff members

klap 06.15.12

did we decide on not deleting the userbase then

Ire 06.15.12

get the site to throw up the horse the band and chocolate watchband pages k ty mx u rock

Voivod 06.15.12

The approval system is very useful (in theory). If there's any possible change to improve it, make it so that you can't vote unless you've posted a comment on the review thread. I agree with Aso.

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

yeah cause someone can't just comment "lol review is dix" and neg it

Voivod 06.15.12

Also there seems to be a latent bug in the site, messing band names with the listing system of albums. What I mean: Ages ago, I added the band "Sneak Preview" to the database, following standard procedure. Now if someone puts the name "Sneak Preview" in the site's search engine, the latter redirects to the following url. http://www.sputnikmusic.com/bands/Sneak-Preview/28890/ No it isn't a Sneak Preview album, it's a Dismember album called "Death Metal".

SgtPepper 06.15.12

What about adopting the "Like" and "Dislike" concept of Youtube, where a user can "Like" /"Dislike" the review and appears next to their name like "PaperbackWriter LIKED/DISLIKED this review". -This would practically eliminate trolling. It doesnt necessarily have to be this, but something similar. This is just my idea, though.

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

how would that eliminate trolling?

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

andcas is only whiny when no one puts out

SgtPepper 06.15.12

@Weeping I mean its just a random idea. But most people "troll neg" because its anonymous, but if it shows that you were the one who "neg'd"- some people would think twice before troll negging.

AsoTamaki 06.15.12

yeah cause someone can't just comment "lol review is dix" and neg it" Obviously, man. The difference is that reviewer would now be able to know 1) they were troll negged and 2) who they were troll negged by. They could then choose to ignore it as it's simply a troll or if they care, report it. Reported user gets banned.

Voivod 06.15.12

Just saw that the front page is flooded with reviews for the new Rush album. A good idea would to put some kind of filter that would inhibit the simultaneous appearance of two (or more) reviews for the same album in the front page, resulting in increased diversity. I will admit this isn't a frequent phenomenon, but still I think it should be taken into consideration.

cvlts 06.15.12

an "edit" function on the actual review page, instead of having to go on your profile, select what review you want to edit, and making the necessary revisions. plz

Deviant. 06.15.12

"some people would think twice before troll negging" The people who only troll neg aren't going to care if they're "exposed", and the people who would neg the review because it might jut be god-awful are still going to do so "What about adopting the "Like" and "Dislike" concept of Youtube, where a user can "Like" /"Dislike" the review and appears next to their name like "PaperbackWriter LIKED/DISLIKED this review" This is just a slightly more pleasant of way of negging a review; eliminating the connotations of the word negative, it's still not liking something. Why dress it up if it accomplishes the same result?

SgtPepper 06.15.12

@Dev I was just saying that it would be a good feature to know who pos'd/neg'd a review because a lot of the users were talking about "troll negging". As I said, it doesnt have to necessarily be what I thought up- its just a random idea.

Parallels 06.15.12

Don't forget that day that there were like 4 Rush reviews for Permanent Waves

Deviant. 06.15.12

"I was just saying that it would be a good feature to know who pos'd/neg'd a review because a lot of the users were talking about "troll negging". The amount of butthurt at knowing who negged you isn't worth thinking about. Granted there are still some mature people on this site, but for the most part it's simply going to be a case of being negged and then deciding to do the same in return. There's a good reason why this function is an anonymous one Besides, people need to get over being negged. Granted there's a fair amount of troll negging going on, but for the most part this is all pretty obvious and easily remedied. But at the same time you need to be aware that you can't please everyone with your work, and while negging might be an extreme reaction, use it as a way to perhaps better focus your efforts for the next piece

Graveyard 06.15.12

More variety when it comes to the user rating system instead of the standardized 1-5 score

Parallels 06.15.12

can we sort our album ratings by genre?

SgtPepper 06.15.12

@Dev You have a point, and my idea would probably cause more bad than good. I said it as a response to the users who were talking about troll negs and ways to prevent them. personally, I think its fine the way the website has it established already, but maybe someone more creative than me can come up with a better solution.

Deviant. 06.15.12

"You have a point, and my idea would probably cause more bad than good. I said it as a response to the users who were talking about troll negs and ways to prevent them. personally, I think its fine the way the website has it established already, but maybe someone more creative than me can come up with a better solution." As long as people are able to hide behind computer screens there's always going to be people looking to be a nuisance simply for the fun of it. The joys of being a part of a "community"

Graveyard 06.15.12

An extra mod would help also

Acanthus 06.15.12

God the genre enhancement/change will be nice, but I don't envy the amount of work/possible bugs that will ensue afterwords.

robertsona 06.15.12

Ohm Ygod is the site really weird for anyone else right now

taylormemer 06.15.12

"If there's any possible change to improve it, make it so that you can't vote unless you've posted a comment on the review thread." Already been suggested before. What would be stopping anyone from just going "lolololol. Good review." *presses the neg button*? The only troll negs people should be concerned about are when you log on and find you've gone from 95% to 82% or something, etc, etc, etc + all discussion involving Dev and Paperback lol @ Doom genre tag. Failed at every attempt. I will laugh when it happens. If it happens. Decimation of the ratings scale is a terrible idea, and has been suggested before. It would also mean the big J would have to go back to using hideous numbers on the front page. But just imagine visualising 3.7 stars. Blah. "No blog-tags please" [1000] ""ip bans" yes please god yes." Used to exist. Doesn't work effectively. Best deterrence? Ignorance.

robertsona 06.15.12

http://t.co/qtdSVgRh Is this one of your updates or (this is literally how the site looked for me; didn't edit this photo or whatever)

robertsona 06.15.12

Wow does it really have to link to the post rather than the image. Great

auberginedreams 06.15.12

"Doesn't work effectively." i'm not arguing this, i'm sure you know more about this than i do, but just out of curiosity why isn't this effective? i mean, if somebody is trolling to the point where it is negatively effecting the site and they are permabanned, wouldn't this mean problem solved?

auberginedreams 06.15.12

i guess there are always proxies but it would still be more effective than just letting them make another account. i don't understand the point of bans on this site tbh because then people just make a super obvious alt, and for some reason it's all good just as long as there username is one letter different or something.

Voivod 06.15.12

I just remembered a suggestion that Trey Spencer had posed first, in order to easily sum up new releases per week The date of albums issued on the current year, i.e. 2012, should be listed as (month)/(day)/(year). The date of 2012 albums is listed simply as "2012", while 2011 albums have the aforementioned date notation.

taylormemer 06.15.12

Easily fixed "Wow does it really have to link to the post rather than the image. Great" http://p.twimg.com/AvaHuVtCIAId7bV.jpg And btw Ive had similar weird displays like that on my piPhone. Clearing the cache seems to help. Bit bizarre finding album art icons replaced with totally unrelated images from other websites in their place. "why isn't this effective?" Because it's remarkably simple circumvent by either changing your IP address, using a different network, proxy connections, or going onto another device with a different IP altogether. And then you have the trolling that happens while these losers are on school machines, where the whole notion of fixed IP goes right out the window.

auberginedreams 06.15.12

okay taylor, thanks for the response, i get what you mean. it still seems like it couldn't hurt but i suppose it is easily circumvented. darthmann i get what you're saying but i don't understand why mods don't ban alts from users that are supposed to be banned if they know for sure they are the same user. i mean, if i got banned and made an alt called "auber" or "dreamingofaubergine" or something like that, it seems like that account should get banned to, otherwise it defeats the purpose of the banning in the first place, even if there are disadvantages to using an alt. the point is the user that was banned is still causing the same trouble with his alt so nothing has really been remedied with the ban.

demon of surveillance 06.15.12

Add doom, deathcore, post-metal, and possibly avant-garde. Metal shouldn't have to be the first genre for bands either. Also, the charts should be fixed so the correct number of votes is shown and non-main genres can be accessed. It used to be that genres such as black metal or pregressive could be accessed on the charts by clicking the "charts" tab while on the band page for a band that had that specific genre as their primary genre.

Scoot 06.15.12

"mandatory marijuana so everyone will chill the fuck out (Side eyeing you scott k.)" why do you make it a necessity to reference me in most of your posts?

henryChinaski 06.15.12

Don't know whether this was mentioned before or not, but i think it would be cool, if (staff) reviews would include the facebook, bandcamp maybe twitter accounts or the like of the particular bands.

Deviant. 06.15.12

Don't really see the point of linking to their twitter, but soundcloud/bandcamp is a good idea

Voivod 06.15.12

if (staff) reviews would include the facebook, bandcamp maybe twitter accounts or the like of the particular bands I would also add - www.bnrmetal.com - which is one of the major listing sites for metal bands and albums. The site is already hosting reviews from blabbermouth.net and lordsofmetal, don't see why it shouldn't include sputnikmusic reviews as well.

Havey 06.15.12

Enhanced pie charts. Atleast increase number of genres shown to like 10 or something instead of 6.

Storm In A Teacup 06.15.12

Really need foxxxy's mod promotion to becoe official so we can get people to take him seriously.

Deviant. 06.15.12

I would like a 10 slice pie please

BigPleb 06.15.12

Review editing, fuck knows why that went.

Deviant. 06.15.12

It's fixed, open your eyes

Trebor. 06.15.12

I had a 10 slice pizza pie for dinner, just make the pie chart a pizza and then it will make sense Not It would be cool to be able to pull up an in depth percentage chart of every genre but I don't know if that would even be possible

BigPleb 06.15.12

Eyes open, cheers Dev.

BigPleb 06.15.12

Wiht you on that one Flutter.

BigPleb 06.15.12

But I like the second idea Base.

Adash 06.15.12

Make me contributor

owen 06.15.12

Fix the HORSE the Band page

queef 06.15.12

ban youtube links so andcas will leave the site

rockandmetaljunkie 06.15.12

Add some new genres and give us the freedom to rate an album with a low mark when the general rating is 4.4 or 4.5 or sth.

rockandmetaljunkie 06.15.12

Btw, it's great you decided to upgrade the site.

jdennis31 06.15.12

add a sputnikpedia section where noob users like me can be educated on the differences between all the awesome new sub genres ya'll are about to be adding.

evilford 06.15.12

this article sounds intriguing. enhanced genre system sounds amazing. I also agree that swear words shouldn't need to be censored anywhere. seems unneeded. anyone with half a brain can fill in the blanks anyways. also, thumbs down on ignore function, sounds lame

evilford 06.15.12

oh yeah, and also...I don't know what's up lately with the site being centered...maybe I missed a discussion on what that was all about. and I don't know if it is this way because I use IE, but IE is the only browser available to me currently and I'm sure that I'm not the only one...anyways, the whole everything being centered thing could be fixed plz???

ClearEyes 06.15.12

If you actually get down to reading this one I'd be awesome to maybe be able to filter news like a "your bands" type news where you can flag bands to have their news show up first. In addition maybe the beginning of a lyrics or "on tour" type archive but obviously thats a big project.

Mordecai. 06.15.12

make me staff

Blackbelt54 06.15.12

I don't like how if you're making a list and you click away from a box and realize you have a typo and then you click back in the box and the text disappears. Also an album search bar would be cool. I also think the new releases page could be cleaned up, it's a bit overwhelming to look at.

Deviant. 06.15.12

We already have an ignore option btw It's called the logout button

jdennis31 06.15.12

/squelch deviant.

Blackbelt54 06.15.12

I also don't like the whole rating variance thing, it doesn't make sense to me that having the same number of each rating is ideal, doesn't it make sense to have low variance, i.e. most of your ratings float in the 2.5-3.5 range? I can't speak for everyone but I feel like 3's are much more commonly found than 5's or 1's

Adabelle 06.15.12

Woah, some people have awful ideas for "improvements" to the site haha

Irving 06.15.12

User search please :)

omnipanzer 06.15.12

The ability to type anything into a text box should really be standard to any site imo e.g. < and .

Knott- 06.15.12

Christ. You have the ability to recommend absolutely any idea you have for the site and you say, "make it so the text isn't centered"?!

Adabelle 06.15.12

Also probably just a weird glitch but it seems the majority of albums on the all-time charts have 127 ratings...

omnipanzer 06.15.12

Saving lists, friend lists, private messaging I'm sure this list could just go on and on. Oh and hi Irving ;^)

MO 06.15.12

"anyways, the whole everything being centered thing could be fixed plz???" if you're using internet explorer switch to mozilla and that will fix it, at least it did for me

omnipanzer 06.15.12

ctrl+F "make it so the text isn't centered" 0 results

omnipanzer 06.15.12

nm

Shuyin 06.15.12

moar rush reviews

porch 06.15.12

an option to reset all ratings instead of having to delete them manually or have a mod do it would be cool, and easy to implement also maybe a cap on the amount of reviews/lists that a user can post in a 24 hour period to help cut down on spam and retards can't think of any reason to justify the pos/neg systems continuing existence

anarchistfish 06.15.12

get rid of the artist info box, it's almost always out of date and messy and just makes the place look untidy and professional and yeah more genres. in the header thing at the top of the site as well make pngs accepted too. jpgs blur and look untidy. And change the font or something so infinite symbols and accented letters don't end up like é. Idk exactly what the problem is there, you know what I mean also ban asotamaki

benkim 06.15.12

User search genre enhancement I know this is probably impossible but can we get to filter out some users because a lot of users here are just offensive teenagers trying to be funny and have forced me to just want to come to the site, get some new music and leave when I would really really love to interact with people here. That would surely be an enhancement.

KILL 06.15.12

fk u btch

Deviant. 06.15.12

"get rid of the artist info box, it's almost always out of date and messy and just makes the place look untidy and professional" So update/tidy them up if you come across any because they're not going to be going away anytime soon

anarchistfish 06.15.12

" And change the font or something so infinite symbols and accented letters don't end up like é" oh look it actually worked there "So update/tidy them up if you come across any because they're not going to be going away anytime soon" they're fucking everywhere and usually they're just copied from wikipedia

MO 06.15.12

"nm " gotta search key words omni!

Deviant. 06.15.12

"they're fucking everywhere and usually they're just copied from wikipedia" I'm not saying go and look for them, but if you come across them while doing a rating spree or whatever, why not spend one minute opening up a tab with the artist's official site and copying the bio in? Improving this site doesn't begin and end with MX, it's up to the people who use this site as well. Shit, you've seen how many album and band edits I've made

YankeeDudel 06.15.12

Editing things messed everything up for me. In list descriptions a bunch of r's appear out of nowhere and in list/album comments when I edit the page breaks are all messed up.

sniper 06.15.12

an option to sort ratings in user profiles by genre would be cool. subgenres aren't really necessary but metal, alt/indie, etc. also the ability to reset all your ratings would be nice. thanks for consulting the plebs

KSK1 06.15.12

Make it so that people can't have 57 alts to troll with.

evilford 06.15.12

'Christ. You have the ability to recommend absolutely any idea you have for the site and you say, "make it so the text isn't centered"?!' well it's a small detail but I thought I'd mention it. It's not like I have a running list of imrpovements I want made to sputnikmusic I think it works pretty well for the most part. I'm happy with it at least.

Irving 06.15.12

We can't say some words in shoutboxes and stuff (I remember "union" is among them, for some tyrannical reason). Giving me full access to my inordinately massive vocabulary would be sweet, MX =)

jdennis31 06.15.12

someone mentioned a tour section for the bands. that would be amazing, as there are no other places i know of that has almost every artist i love on the website and there are so many times that i find out about a show/tour after the fact.

Deviant. 06.15.12

Last FM does

rotterdog 06.15.12

1. User search 2. A chart for 100 best reviewers - base it on the user's approval rating with a threshold of 5 reviews or something. Anything you can do to incentivize more professional writing. 3. definitely agree with adding deeper sub-genres 4. Enhance the new releases section so you can search for album releases by week

Gyromania 06.15.12

Honestly, I think that the pos/neg system should be eliminated.

jdennis31 06.15.12

@deviant if that comment is to me, gracias amigo. finally have a reason to make a Last FM account.

sniper 06.15.12

yeah i could lose the pos/neg system. and i am personally against adding a bunch more genre tags. a handful would be good, especially more common ones under "other" like ambient, and some electronic ones (dubstep), but at a certain point it becomes ridiculous to insist on the most correct microgenre on a review site. that's what last fm is for.

FictionalFlames 06.15.12

All of those changes you're considering sound really cool especially the expansion of the genre characterization. This has probably been said before, but if there is a way to fix the bug of editing our reviews would be really nice. Cheers!

bloc 06.15.12

I would like the ability to quote a comment which also includes the name of the user who posted it. Kind of like on forums.

omnipanzer 06.15.12

"Honestly, I think that the pos/neg system should be eliminated." Ridiculous, when enough people have voted it is extremely accurate as long as you understand the community. If someone wants to start listening to a new group it points them in the right direction, why make them go to another site to figure out what album to start with when the data is already compiled.

sniper 06.15.12

all comments containing the words "dubstep," "future garage," "2-step" or "skrillex" should have to be read and approved by deviant before they will be posted. you could also add a feature where whenever a review thread is bumped for the first time in at least a week, a post by riffoclock will be automatically added saying "shit album." this would save him a lot of hassle i'm sure.

omnipanzer 06.15.12

God Damn it, I digress for oblivious reasons. My apologies Gyro.

omnipanzer 06.15.12

*obvious

porch 06.15.12

additional suggestion: edit comment option on blog posts for omnipanzer

omnipanzer 06.15.12

/raise hand Yes please ;^)

Deviant. 06.15.12

"and i am personally against adding a bunch more genre tags. a handful would be good, especially more common ones under "other" like ambient, and some electronic ones (dubstep), but at a certain point it becomes ridiculous to insist on the most correct microgenre on a review site. that's what last fm is for." Not to mention the endless debates about not only what is what, but what genres get included and what ones don't I'm all for SOME added genre inclusion, but the bare minimum

Deviant. 06.15.12

"all comments containing the words "dubstep," "future garage," "2-step" or "skrillex" should have to be read and approved by deviant before they will be posted. " Also this

Sowing 06.15.12

1. user search 2. some kind of layout/interface change...I'm not saying it needs to be overhauled, but it's been the same for a long time now and certain things don't receive attention or aren't a high enough priority (news, for example) 3. A FEW added subgenres

theacademy 06.15.12

1. change artist bios to embedded wiki 2. more in flames on the staff blog 3. people should stop ragging on chris brown, the kid is a phenomenal talent 4. allow us to neg downer reviews

evilford 06.15.12

genres could branch out like one more level and it would be perfect. but yeah, the overhaul doesn't need to be overkill.

anarchistfish 06.15.12

"2. A chart for 100 best reviewers - base it on the user's approval rating with a threshold of 5 reviews or something. Anything you can do to incentivize more professional writing. " no "Honestly, I think that the pos/neg system should be eliminated. " too far the other way it's an ok system but it has to be taken with a pinch of salt. As long as you do that it's fine as it is

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

"1. user search 2. some kind of layout/interface change...I'm not saying it needs to be overhauled, but it's been the same for a long time now and certain things don't receive attention or aren't a high enough priority (news, for example) 3. A FEW added subgenres" I second all of Sowings ideas

HSThomas 06.15.12

-Better search engine for both bands and user. -Retarded genre debates = instant perma-bans for all included. -Hard Jams should become a genre. -Readily supply Deviant with coffee to stop him from turning into his Mr. Hyde persona. -Stupid banning reasons cause the Mod to lose their position. -Rating Jane Doe below a 2 becomes possible. -Fire Jom and Chan.

Idnuf 06.15.12

In the shoutbox, when you type "delete" it deletes the world delete. When you type an ampersand (possibly other symbols too, I've never used them) all the text following is deleted. When lists are edited, album art often disappears that was just working properly.

omnipanzer 06.15.12

"Fire Jom and Chan." Why Jom?

StrangerofSorts 06.15.12

A genre update would be awesome, especially as far as electronic genres go. If nothing else "Ambient" is kind of needed since it doesn't really fall under the umbrella of "electonica" at all and it's a pretty prominent genre, even here. Limit it though, it could get really messy. I'm not too much of a fan of the pos/neg system, but it really isn't the end of the world if it stays; there're arguments for both keeping and removing it.

anarchistfish 06.15.12

"-Hard Jams should become a genre." Wanna debate that "-Retarded genre debates = instant perma-bans for all included." oh "-Stupid banning reasons cause the Mod to lose their position." lol

taxidermist 06.15.12

"Rating Jane Doe below a 2 becomes possible." Don't be silly :p

Scoot 06.15.12

chan hasn't written anything for months, he should have been canned ages ago

ThroneOfAgony 06.15.12

Yeah I'm with Idnuf on this one. Whenever I post on a person's shoutbox, for some reason, it leaves it out. Same goes with updated for some reason too

MO 06.15.12

"chan hasn't written anything for months, he should have been canned ages ago" kind of agree on that one

thumbcrusher 06.15.12

in terms of searching for stuff i think there should just be a general search function for the entire site and then you get your results in categories like band / releases / user etc. i know you can just use google but i think would be the best way if people want to change the search function.

Brains 06.15.12

Add an option to delete an account or ability to change username or both, also make Alternative Metal and Post Metal a genre, ambient too, perhaps also rename Metal to Heavy Metal? but that doesn't matter

SaneTBP 06.15.12

"also rename Metal to Heavy Metal" uhm, no

jlech 06.15.12

A section of top "genre defining" lists so when someone makes a list requesting to recs for post hardcore or whatever they can immediately go to top lists. Lists would likely be voted on to determine best within a genre.

porch 06.15.12

"A chart for 100 best reviewers - base it on the user's approval rating" lol

Hyperion1001 06.15.12

"A section of top "genre defining" lists so when someone makes a list requesting to recs for post hardcore or whatever they can immediately go to top lists. Lists would likely be voted on to determine best within a genre." you know what, i actually kind of like this idea. maybe give the lists a vote feature that doesn't really affect the list when it is still on the front page, but have a separate section for lists where the highest rated are shown at the top for easy reference to newcomers and even people just browsing looking for new music. kind of how RYM does it but based on a vote system rather than randomly listing all relevant ones. that sounds like a rather large project though

pizzamachine 06.15.12

I always thought a Contributor blog would be cool.

Irving 06.15.12

^ THIS. SO HARD.

Irving 06.15.12

Think I just exploded at the thought of the amount of Disney I could get on here if there were a Contributor blog.

evilford 06.15.12

I second the "genre defining" lists section. almost everyone is looking for that kind of stuff at one point or another, and it would save some unnecessary lists. it would be a big project, or maybe it could just be something that is kind of developed slowly moving forward. doesn't have to be an all-at-once thing

anarchistfish 06.15.12

""A section of top "genre defining" lists so when someone makes a list requesting to recs for post hardcore or whatever they can immediately go to top lists. Lists would likely be voted on to determine best within a genre."" Ever heard of a guy called SeaAnemone

accompliceofmydeath 06.15.12

The tenths or even the .25 rating thing would be nice. The genre defining list would be awesome as well.

rockandmetaljunkie 06.15.12

Doom Stoner Southern Rock The site need these genres seriously.

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

It would be cool to sort album ratings by genre

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

let's bring back ROTM and winner gets a free MFLB cashnugz knows what i'm talkin about

Blackbelt54 06.15.12

I like a lot of these ideas such as sorting ratings by genre also I don't particularly mind the current rating scale but a 10-point scale with halves would be pretty cool

evilford 06.15.12

"also I don't particularly mind the current rating scale but a 10-point scale with halves would be pretty cool" agreed on this too. it's a minor thing, not a big deal if it stays the same. but this would offer an improvement I think.

rockandmetaljunkie 06.15.12

also southern rock? are you retarded? rock comes from the south anyway cause of the blues. I'm not retarded, but this comment is retared and probably you are retarded. Southern Rock is somehow different from the typical Blues as it blends more styles. Also, there are some forms of the Blues which are not from the South, such as the Chicago Blues.

owen 06.15.12

A mobile version of the site would be nice

anarchistfish 06.15.12

What's wrong with just accessing the site normally? ""also I don't particularly mind the current rating scale but a 10-point scale with halves would be pretty cool"" we basically have a ten point scale I prefer 1-5 anyway

Blackbelt54 06.15.12

that's why I said a 10-point scale with halves, making it a 20 point scale

rockandmetaljunkie 06.15.12

"I prefer 1-5 anyway" Yeah me too.

evilford 06.15.12

"we basically have a ten point scale " yeah 1-5 with halves. not the same as 1-10 with halves

ThroneOfAgony 06.15.12

Sputnik should make a recommendation machine so if you need recs you can generate bands and albums

anarchistfish 06.15.12

"yeah 1-5 with halves. not the same as 1-10 with halves" what's wrong with what we have now?

LifeAsAChipmunk 06.15.12

You should be able to find your album ratings sorted by genre. User search, list search, show jpgs or gifs and not just the link. 10 sliced pie chart, major/general genre tags (like Metal and Punk) should not have to be the first for the band. I had a funny thought a few months ago: an anti-musical taste chart - a pie chart of things you've rated 2 or lower. Just an idea. 'I would like the ability to quote a comment which also includes the name of the user who posted it. Kind of like on forums.' This so I wouldn't have to add the quotations and comment on it like I did now.

evilford 06.15.12

like I said it's not a huge deal. just a suggestion, I would enjoy the precision of that scale more. like I said in my orig post if you read it, not a huge deal if it doesn't change. just a minor suggestion if anyone else feels the same.

LifeAsAChipmunk 06.15.12

I like 1-5 rating better than 1-10

Blackbelt54 06.15.12

and I also specifically said there's nothing wrong with the rating system but a different one wouldn't be a bad Idea also for the pie charts, I think 10 genres might be too many, but the pie chart isn't accurate as it is now... personally, I think there should be 8 or so genres but also a slice for everything else combined

MyWife 06.15.12

needs hawks metal genre tag

ChuckyTruant 06.15.12

No 1-5

PlaygroundFading 06.15.12

allow channing to delete insolent, neophytic bottom-feeders who oppose him

Dis_Con_Nec_Ted 06.15.12

...127 also bring back the option to acces 'sub-genre charts' (black/death metal etc.)

Aids 06.15.12

"ignore function" why don't you all use your built-in ignore function? it's called, get this, "ignoring someone". you don't HAVE to respond to every bullshit comment you see you know.

Aids 06.15.12

i don't care about bells and whistles i just want to see the site's annoying glitches disappear. -not being able to edit reviews -losing artwork in lists if they have an apostrophe in the title when you edit -those rrrrrrrannoying 'r's -probably other things idk like I'm all for making the site shinier and including more pretentious genre tags, but I'd rather the annoying stuff get fixed first, permanently

cvlts 06.15.12

again, having an "edit" button right on the actual review page would be swell :]

ThroneOfAgony 06.15.12

Aids you can now edit your reviews, i'm pretty sure. I just did it on one of mine

WeepingBanana 06.15.12

"Improving Sputnik by Aids" lol

Ire 06.15.12

queef 06.15.12 ban youtube links so andcas will leave the site comment of the year

Pennywise_M 06.16.12

Add Math + Technical + all the other above mentioned to genres list. User search is cool

BarkHammer 06.16.12

Wipe the userbase?

Deviant. 06.16.12

"If nothing else "Ambient" is kind of needed since it doesn't really fall under the umbrella of "electonica" at all" Uh yes it does, completely

MisterTornado 06.16.12

"If nothing else "Ambient" is kind of needed since it doesn't really fall under the umbrella of "electonica" at all" Uh yes it does, completely Though not all Ambient music is created with electronic instruments

Maniac! 06.16.12

""If nothing else "Ambient" is kind of needed since it doesn't really fall under the umbrella of "electonica" at all"" I agree it should be a tag. Saying it doesn't fall under "electronica" is fucking hilarious, though.

auberginedreams 06.16.12

it almost always does fall under electronic, so for the purposes of the genre tags on this website i'd say labeling it as electronic is fine. but it's not like it's impossible to have non-electronic ambient music.

MisterTornado 06.16.12

I've always kind of enjoyed the mystery of the "Other" tag.

ShadowRemains 06.16.12

Yeah, as other people mentioned, the apostrophes/other strange characters in list problem is a big one.

ShadowRemains 06.16.12

Also, adding bbcode to list comment sections would be nice.

Deviant. 06.16.12

"Though not all Ambient music is created with electronic instruments" This is true, but at the same time not all electronic music is composed exclusively of electronic components

balcaen 06.16.12

fix the band page for "HORSE the band"

Satellite 06.16.12

glad someone finally brought that up

Knott- 06.16.12

"This is true, but at the same time not all electronic music is composed exclusively of electronic components " sorry but lol

Deviant. 06.16.12

Thanks for the input strikey

Knott- 06.16.12

yw!!

Pennywise_M 06.16.12

""If nothing else "Ambient" is kind of needed since it doesn't really fall under the umbrella of "electonica" at all"" don't know who initially said that, but i agree. Not all electronic music is ambient. I mean, is I See Stars ambient?

Pennywise_M 06.16.12

""If nothing else "Ambient" is kind of needed since it doesn't really fall under the umbrella of "electonica" at all"" don't know who initially said that, but i agree. Not all electronic music is ambient. I mean, is I See Stars ambient?

Pennywise_M 06.16.12

sry for the dbl post

anarchistfish 06.16.12

"ban youtube links so andcas will leave the site" this is actually really funny though

Voivod 06.16.12

Imo, It would be great to have written in the accounts of former contribs, staff, etc, the amount of time of their service in the site. For example: (username1) Contributor (2005-2007) (username2) Staff (2006-2008)

greg84 06.16.12

I'd like to rate albums 3.75 instead of 3.5 or 4, but I know it's impossible.

anarchistfish 06.16.12

oh, make it easier for past blog posts to be found (make a contents or something). I hate keep having to google search for old end of year lists

Idnuf 06.16.12

@AnarchistFish I don't want to sound condescending, and I figure I must be misinterpreting you somehow, but you know there is a little box to the right that says talking points and has the categories, right? Do you mean that when you click Year End Lists it should be more organized instead of just an archive of posts tagged year end lists?

FictionalFlames 06.16.12

there should be a crusade of getting rid of terrible new users and trolls by banning their IP address.

StrangerofSorts 06.16.12

""If nothing else "Ambient" is kind of needed since it doesn't really fall under the umbrella of "electonica" at all" Uh yes it does, completely" Sometimes ambient music can only involve piano; in fact what I'm listening to right now is compiled only of minimalistic piano and the sound of a storm near where the guy's playing. I don't know if I could call that electronic. There's a huge overlap sure, but it's separate from, say, Garage in that it isn't exclusively electronic. But eh... arbitrary boundaries.

ILJ 06.16.12

An app would be lovely. Or just a more mobile friendly version of the site, so I can feed my obsession whilst away from the computer.

Eko 06.17.12

for searching users: click any username in a thread, then type the user's name you want after the equal sign in the URL. saves time. this is sort of a project, but I'd like to have a way to view a special average rating for an album including only the ratings of users that are "qualified" in some way. maybe this is a high enough objectivity, or enough ratings, or maybe a favorite users list that you build yourself. just an idea. maybe instead of getting rid of the pos/neg system, you only have pos's. so like how you can't dislike things on facebook ambient for genre status ratings by genre sounds sick fix charts please I'd like more specific ratings too but I know that isn't happening news seems fine as is, not sure what needs fixing there

Recspecs 06.17.12

silentpotato for mod 2012

qwe3 06.17.12

make uhhkris a mod

Aids 06.17.12

i'd like to see user's ratings disappear if they've been inactive for a long time, say over two years, as they do on RYM. it's a good way to ensure that the averages reflect the current userbase's opinions on albums.

BarkHammer 06.17.12

^I can see the arguments for both for and against that.

taylormemer 06.17.12

Then just don't write at all please.

anarchistfish 06.17.12

"@AnarchistFish I don't want to sound condescending, and I figure I must be misinterpreting you somehow, but you know there is a little box to the right that says talking points and has the categories, right?" oh my god I am retarded

illmitch 06.17.12

if the neckbeards get all their metal subgenres i want cloud rap as a subgenre

minty901 06.17.12

i dont get this whole ambient vs electronica thing. i thought electronica applied to any music that heavily relied on computerised (ie. electronic) sounds to make their music. it doesn't have any meaning for what type of music is actually being played, just how it was made. if you make ambient music using purely a guitar (lowercase noises, for example), that's guitar-based ambient music, not electronica.

CoConi 06.17.12

I would suggest that albums revieve genre tags, which are visible on the artists page. Some artists are really diverse and changed their styles multiple times. Example: Opeth is tagged as Metal, Death Metal, Progressive - but which album contains which style? The solution would be to tag e.g. Heritage as Progressive, Psychedelic, Deliverance as Death Metal, Progressive, Damnation as Progressive,etc. The artist itself should be able to have more than 3 genre tags anyway. As for the amount of subgenres etc. that should be added, I have no real idea. Probably some kind of voting process could help.

Captain North 06.17.12

Fix the rating system, I know it's really picky but '3' isn't th average of 5

Captain North 06.17.12

I meant is.

illmitch 06.17.12

[quote]Example: Opeth is tagged as Metal, Death Metal, Progressive - but which album contains which style? The solution would be to tag e.g. Heritage as Progressive, Psychedelic, Deliverance as Death Metal, Progressive, Damnation as Progressive,etc. The artist itself should be able to have more than 3 genre tags anyway.[/quote] [url]http://i.imgur.com/h0msV.jpg[/url]

illmitch 06.17.12

well so much for that witty comment

taylormemer 06.17.12

Fix html tags in the staff blog for illmitch.

illmitch 06.17.12

^^^^^^

FromDaHood 06.17.12

Get rid of the Musical Neighbors section, possibly in favor of a friends list

AsoTamaki 06.17.12

Please don't. Other terrible ideas previously mentioned: - ignore function - a 10-point scale with halves - "i'd like to see user's ratings disappear if they've been inactive for a long time"

FromDaHood 06.17.12

Come now, when was the last time you used you Musical Neighbors section?

PerditionTheElder 06.18.12

Every time I visit a band's site and read its description, I wish there was a way to listen the band's music from that page. What about providing space for a link to band's official website on their Sputnik page?

Aids 06.18.12

why is my idea terrible aso? half the ratings on this site are from people who signed up to give their favourite band's discog all 5s four years ago and hasn't posted at all since.

FictionalFlames 06.18.12

just thought of one. Expanding the similar artist section for any band to like 10 bands instead of five.

JohnnyoftheWell 06.18.12

Aids' idea is pretty good, but hardly a top priority A friends list sounds awesome, and PLEASE fix the forum avatar thing

thumbcrusher 06.18.12

Aids there are probably quite a few people who come on here to rate their music perfectly fairly and just don't comment on things. i don't think wiping their ratings would be very fair. I think doing something about those raters you describe might be a good idea but not wiping people's after inactivity.

Eko 06.18.12

how about maybe only displaying ratings done by people with like a 70% objectivity hmmmmm

evilford 06.18.12

that reminds me of a good point let's remove the objectivity rating from the site

sterilevision 06.18.12

Can we burn all the trolls and nuke annoying people?

Aids 06.18.12

"how about maybe only displaying ratings done by people with like a 70% objectivity hmmmmm" no that's dumb "that reminds me of a good point let's remove the objectivity rating from the site" I agree, the objectivity thing is dumb. i mean i'm proud of my decent 81% but still, away with it

Scoot 06.18.12

esp when people pride themselves on having a high objectivity rating

evilford 06.18.12

first of all, I hope no one really buys into anyones ratings being objective. secondly, even if we did buy into that, what if people only rated albums that they like above average? what if you're good at picking albums you're going to listen to next and they are all above 3.5/4 and you mostly only rate stuff you enjoy? that shouldn't indicate low objectivity. someone could randomly rate 20 albums each for rating 1.0 to 5.0 and their objectivity would be 100% or something. it's existence defeats it's purpose. but as it is, it's not really hurting anything so if it's not done away with it's not an issue really.

ChuckyTruant 06.18.12

hey i worked hard for my 85% objectivity!

evilford 06.18.12

case in point?

Aids 06.18.12

'case in point?" ^^^ exactly

Brains 06.18.12

I agree with Ford, i myself tend to hav zillions of 5s because I only really buy/acquire/listen to music I particularly like, as is objectivity like ford says doesnt really hurt anyone

jlech 06.18.12

Yeah the objectivity part is impossible to ignore. You are far more likely to go towards the extremes when rating. I don't know what the average rating of all the albums combined is, but I'd guess it is higher than a 3. I know it would never happen but it would be cool to rank and rate within genres.

Voivod 06.19.12

With reference to the site's objectivity index, I think it would be better if every user rating was divided with the rating average of each record and then multiplied with 100. In the case where a user's rating for a record is the first one, then the default normalized value will be equal to 100. The average of all normalized user ratings would yield a much more objective (sic) objectivity index.

ChuckyTruant 06.19.12

Gah im so bad at math

Voivod 06.19.12

In the case where a user's rating for a record is the first one, then the default normalized value will be equal to 100. For the sake of completion, if there are more ratings in the future, the value of the normalized user rating will be continuously adjusted according to the record's rating average.

ChuckyTruant 06.19.12

Hmm.

Voivod 06.19.12

As a conclusion, a user with an objectivity index close or equal to 100 with be aptly objective, whereas users with an index significantly lower or significantly higher than 100 will be subjective in their ratings.

SaneTBP 06.19.12

That wouldn't work, because the one with most sputnik like tastes would have the highest objectivity scores. That wouldn't help at all, since when you'd look at their ratings, you'd see most likely the average scores. And sputnik averages are not "objective" at all, well there isn't an objective score for an album.

Voivod 06.19.12

"because the one with most sputnik like tastes would have the highest objectivity scores" I don't think there is such thing as "sputnik like tastes". And in the majority of rating averages on which I can have a solid say whether they are objective or not, they are indeed. For example, I have a 63% objectivity score , because in general I tend to care about records that I will most probably like, giving ratings that lie between 3 and 5. If my ratings were processed by the aforementioned scheme, the objectivity index would rise up, because, in most record cases, the rating average of the albums I rated would be close to my ratings. In general, I admit that no system is perfect, though.

SaneTBP 06.19.12

"And in the majority of rating averages on which I can have a solid say whether they are objective or not, they are indeed." Eh, and how can you say what's an objective rating? I'm not saying that your idea is bad, it's just flawed. As is almost any other choice in the other hand. I just don't think that it'd be helpful at all, it just would make the average scores more generic since some people would start to rate stuff close to the average rather than rating based on their own opinion.

Voivod 06.19.12

"Eh, and how can you say what's an objective rating?" Putting it this way, I will admit I can't really say for sure, but when I like an album and see that another N (where N=200 or N=30, for example) people like it as well, then I can assume with good certainty that the album is indeed good. That's my sole indication and in general (not in all cases though), album rating averages in Sputnik tend to speak the truth about an album

Emim 06.19.12

i would rlike the rs to rgo away

SaneTBP 06.19.12

Lots of people agreeing with an opinion=opinion being objective After all there isn't such a thing as "objective" rating, so that still could be the closest one. That objectivity method would suck for the guys with unusual tastes though, since their scores would be different. That wouldn't mean that the ones with unsual taste would be less objective, they are just looking for different things in music or give higher regard to other things in music than majority of people in sputnik. They can still rate their stuff objectively, by their standards. There isn't things that make albums better than other, only opinions. That's the beauty of music and the reason why "objective ratings" in music all always, well, subjective.

SaneTBP 06.19.12

uff, typos. *are always

porch 06.19.12

delete voivod's comments

Voivod 06.19.12

"Lots of people agreeing with an opinion=opinion being objective" I was wrong earlier about using the word "certainty", what I really meant to say is that when a lot of people agree about the good or bad merit of one album, then there's a high chance (and absolute certainty) that this album is correspondingly bad or good.

Voivod 06.19.12

uff, typos. [2] *(and not absolute certainty)

evilford 06.19.12

I think it's goofy for anyone, including sputnik, to make any kind of assumption that taste in music has anything to do with objectivity. "musical taste" and "objectivity" are mutually exclusive on a fundamental level. that's why I think if there are any changes at all, just remove all instances of the word objective or objectivity from the site.

JohnnyoftheWell 06.19.12

Objectivity should be replaced with an obscurity gauge

Capablanca 06.19.12

Don't have time to read all the thread in case someone already mentioned it, but a better way to see the tracklist in albums that dont have a review yet would be nice.

taylormemer 06.19.12

"Objectivity should be replaced with an obscurity gauge" Haha. No. "but a better way to see the tracklist in albums that dont have a review yet would be nice." Shh. Don't tell BLUEOmni.

Lambda 06.20.12

- Be able to see the track listings of albums without reviews - Be able to edit reviews - More genre tags - Updated layout/interface, perhaps? Just some ideas :)

Deviant. 06.20.12

You can do both of the first two issues you bought up

Lambda 06.20.12

I can't edit my reviews tho :( And how do you look at the track listings? Other than like going into the edit function.

Lambda 06.20.12

Oh, wait. Review editing is back. YAY!

taylormemer 06.20.12

You can look at tracklists by hitting "edit albums" in the bio page of the artist

Deviant. 06.20.12

Admittedly it's not the best solution, but it's more than sufficient for a site that wasn't designed as an all-purpose discog source (like RYM, Discogs.com etc)

anarchistfish 06.20.12

"esp when people pride themselves on having a high objectivity rating " hey how're you doing

anarchistfish 06.20.12

95% objectivity yeahhhhhhhh

owen 06.20.12

I don't know if this has been said already, cuz I am too lazy to read everything on this page again but; Genres per album. It isn't a big deal, but some bands change their style during their career.

evilford 06.20.12

yeah that has been said but also a fairly good idea imo

Tyrael 06.20.12

Dunno if this has been suggested before but the mods need to be able to IP ban someone imo. Atm when someone is banned they just make an alt and it's as if nothing ever happened.

D41V30N 06.20.12

The tracklist of an album should be shown on the soundoff/user ratings page of the album as well.

dylanjones42 06.22.12

We could probably get broken artist pages fixed such as Horse the Band's. It would be cool to see such an essential function of the website to work properly before we started adding a bunch of other shit

ITsHxCTOASTER 06.22.12

I'm curious about what enhancements might be added to lists

Ignimbrite 06.22.12

Add a way to easily access genre pages outside of the major genres or linking from the pie charts.

jdennis31 06.22.12

is anyone else unable to change their avatars, or did they move the location of the change option?

taylormemer 06.22.12

Avatars are changed in the forum user CP; profile pics are changed through you actual sput profile.

jdennis31 06.22.12

thank you sir.

silentstar 06.23.12

well then, THIS IS MY TIME TO SHINE! I really think we should improve the news article section; there are times when I (or others) submit completely plausible articles and they are rejected by the mods, but then there are times when horrible articles are published, sometimes repeats of each other. so I would really appreciate if we could improve this in any way.

Inveigh 06.24.12

"Shoegaze, Indie Rock, Canadian, Dreath Metal" if only I could view the highest rated canadian dreath metal albums ever

benkim 07.01.12

How about improved artist search. It really is annoying when I misspell an artist's name and I get around 1000 "did you mean" choices

Pheromone 05.30.23

cannot wait for these changes

MoM 05.30.23

This was posted on my birthday. Can we have some more upgrades yet?

Feather 05.30.23

11 years later

Zakusz 05.30.23

bruh

Flugmorph 05.30.23

this is gonna be great

pizzamachine 05.30.23

Knew this wasn’t gonna be recent news

Sevengill 05.30.23

can't wait for new Kalmah and The Ocean Seventh Swamphony and Pelagial gonna be lit, you heard it here first

ArsMoriendi 05.30.23

Why get my hopes up like this? lol

pizzamachine 05.30.23

Hehehe

Flugmorph 05.30.23

ban pheromone

SomeCallMeTim 05.30.23

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